"Fiat money is backed by men with guns; Bitcoin is not. So why should this thing have any value?"--Uber statist economist Paul Krugman.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Obama as the Joker? OK But the Prez as a "caged hamster"?

This was one of the lines today in Rhonda Graham's column in the WNJ that almost made me spit Mountain Dew through my nose [and many of you know just how painful that can be]:

You have to wonder if team Obama has gotten so blinded by the historical significance of his election, that like a caged hamster, the administration can't seem to get off the spin wheel of creating historic moments.

It wasn't until I actually pulled up a hamster-related Barack Obama picture that I got really worried: